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... feel confident in venturing on a journey in a foreign country without a companion . I should want at intervals to hear the sound of my own language . There is an involuntary antipathy in the mind of an English- man to foreign manners ...
... feel confident in venturing on a journey in a foreign country without a companion . I should want at intervals to hear the sound of my own language . There is an involuntary antipathy in the mind of an English- man to foreign manners ...
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... feel in part on this occa- sion ) at the sight of the sea for the first time ? I think the reason usually given - referring to the incapacity of actual objects for satisfying our preconceptions of them- scarcely goes deep enough into ...
... feel in part on this occa- sion ) at the sight of the sea for the first time ? I think the reason usually given - referring to the incapacity of actual objects for satisfying our preconceptions of them- scarcely goes deep enough into ...
Page 136
... feel this sunrise and its glories old . ( p . 8. ) Here Apollo's fire produces a pyre , a silvery pyre of clouds , wherein a spirit might win oblivion and melt his essence fine , and scented eglantine gives sweets to the sun , and cold ...
... feel this sunrise and its glories old . ( p . 8. ) Here Apollo's fire produces a pyre , a silvery pyre of clouds , wherein a spirit might win oblivion and melt his essence fine , and scented eglantine gives sweets to the sun , and cold ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 5 |
OLIVER GOLDSMITH | 11 |
An Evening at Vauxhall | 27 |
Copyright | |
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